Society/Culture Is Comedy Dead?

[ApplecrossWC]

Maybe you guys should stick to Kevin Bloody Wilson, Jim Davidson and Roy Chubby Brown.

 

[Rettolalia]

Maybe you guys should stick to Kevin Bloody Wilson, Jim Davidson and Roy Chubby Brown.

Dont knock Chubby

Honestly I challenge anyone to watch him and not laugh.









And this filmed live at the height of KB’s career

 

[Val Keating]

Probably answered your own question. Indigenous people make up a small minority of the population so there is probably a limited target market for the sort of indigenous comedy you see on ABC/NITV. But then we have had plenty of ethnic comedians doing ethnic jokes so it's not like it's a WASP's game. I've seen a few indigenous stand ups take the piss out of their own people and I don't know what the appetite is among the woke for that. If a black person makes fun of black people and black people laugh, as a white person it must be racist if I laugh. Etc.



I think he is Malaysian. But he grew up in multiple places and works here and in the US so is a citizen of the world really. Married an Australian so probably lives here now.

Pretty sure he lives in the us

 

[WA ROO]

Maybe you guys should stick to Kevin Bloody Wilson, Jim Davidson and Roy Chubby Brown.

Don't know the last two
KBW is getting on a bit
Try watching Issac Butterfield

 

[Rettolalia]

Tim Minchin....that’s another one of these super woke, pseudo intellectual, pretentious campaigners the ABC seems to churn out like sausages.

 

[Scotland]

Tim Minchin....that’s another one of these super woke, pseudo intellectual, pretentious campaigners the ABC seems to churn out like sausages.

Would that be the same Tim Minchin who once joked about Magic Happens bumper stickers with reference to adding "so does cot death" with a permanent marker?

 

[Rettolalia]

Would that be the same Tim Minchin who once joked about Magic Happens bumper stickers with reference to adding "so does cot death" with a permanent marker?

Yes he is a militant atheist. That’s what he is saying with that.

But also seems like the sort of guy who would likely describe himself as a ‘male feminist’ (always a red flag) and who you would see slagging off how ‘horribly racist and colonial and patriarchal’ Australia is from London in Guardian op-Ed’s etc

If Gadsby ever did a one women musical of her life, Tim would compose the soundtrack. Classical far left, ABC luvvies.

Edit - See exhibit a.

‘It was unbearable’: Tim Minchin on life under Trump and the collapse of his $100m movie

Back on home soil, the Australian polymath discusses politics, musicals and #MeToo – and the worst year of his professional life

www.google.com.au

 

[JackOutback]

But also seems like the sort of guy who would likely describe himself as a ‘male feminist’ (always a red flag) and who you would see slagging off how ‘horribly racist and colonial and patriarchal’ Australia is from London in Guardian op-Ed’s etc

So he's not a campaigner to other people. The bastard!

 

[Rettolalia]

So he's not a campaigner to other people. The bastard!

So you have to be a pretentious, hard left, pseudo intellectual to not be considered a campaigner to the left do you?

Right.

 

[Scotland]

I like Tim Minchin. Guess I'm a woke male feminist now. ****.

 

[ApplecrossWC]

Tim Minchin is great.

It's pretty funny how the type of people that go on about "snowflakes" are the biggest snowflakes themselves.

 

[Rettolalia]

Tim Minchin is great.

It's pretty funny how the type of people that go on about "snowflakes" are the biggest snowflakes themselves.

The difference is, our side won’t call in a bomb threat to a university that lets him perform on campus.

#rememberevergreen

 

[masai]

Steady Eddie rules.

We have major problems when they call Julia Morris a comedian. Give me Magda anyday.

 

[TheWoodenSlug]

Minchin is ok, though I think he's a better pianist than comedian.

 

[Scotland]

I don't know if he's good enough at either but he's a great musical comedian. Not sure I'd go and see him to stand up for an hour or two and I've never been to see any concert pianist perform.

 

[Rettolalia]

I don't know if he's good enough at either but he's a great musical comedian. Not sure I'd go and see him to stand up for an hour or two and I've never been to see any concert pianist perform.

Can you actually imagine going to see him live?

If you wanted two hours of being harangued about climate change, changing the date, and white guilt, you could just tune into the ABC and save yourself some money.

 

[JackOutback]

I’ve seen Tim Minchin live. He’s funny, a good pianist and an actual intellectual. You have to be pretty soft to be put off by his otherwise genuinely held opinions. He’s not a slave to PC, he just actually believes some sh!t.

 

[Frank Bunn]

Minchin is a smart arse but not particularly funny. Bill Bailey does musical comedy much better without the PC cringe.

 

[PoppedCorn]

Burr
Hands down my fav

 

[TheWoodenSlug]

Minchin is a smart arse but not particularly funny. Bill Bailey does musical comedy much better without the PC cringe.

Agree re Bill Bailey. Bo Burnham is pretty good too.

I used to love Stephen Lynch, but I haven't listened to any of his songs in years - I probably wouldn't find them as hilarious now as I did as a teenager.

 

[Scotland]

Can you actually imagine going to see him live?

If you wanted two hours of being harangued about climate change, changing the date, and white guilt, you could just tune into the ABC and save yourself some money.

I imagine going to see him live would be similar to seeing one of his live performances on TV.

 

[Andrew Birch]

 

[Andrew Birch]

 

[Andrew Birch]

If you don't at least chuckle at this tidbit of satire, you're part of the reason that comedy is dead.

Powerful: Loggers Carved 'How Dare You' Into The Forest While Cutting Down Trees For Time Magazine's Person Of The Year Issue

Two words came to mind when we heard about this powerful story. Can you guess what they are?

babylonbee.com

 

[the_interloper]

Not sure how you measure it but comedy would appear to be much more popular than ever, with Youtube and podcasts along with live shows, so many avenues. Also there's probably a silent majority who appreciates "anti-woke" comedy and a huge market for it I'd reckon, right wing comedy is the new shock comedy.